It had a look in its eyes like it wanted to say,Why are you still standing? As for me, I was utterly baffled as to how such a tremendous noise had come from something that I’d hardly felt at all.

I tried grabbing the rabbit by its legs, but it dodged with a nimble backward leap. It charged at me a second time, so I blocked it. Right on cue, another loud, dull noise resounded throughout the forest.

“Huh? I guess it’s nothing after all.”

After a long pause, the rabbit squeaked again.

It would take more than a rabbit to knock a grown man off his feet. That much was obvious, but for some reason, I could imagine my previous self being bowled over. Still, as you might expect, I couldn’t let myself lose to a rabbit.

“I’ll be making you my meal for today.”

I balled up my hand into a fist, then brought it down on the rabbit.

“Squeeee?!”

The rabbit must’ve sensed danger, because it instantly tried to dodge my punch. My fist only grazed it... At least, that’s what I thought, but suddenly the rabbit was spinning violently like a top at full speed.

“Huh?”

The rabbit’s momentum sent it smashing into a tree, where it slumped limply to the ground.

“Whoa, whoa, whoa. What was that? Did it just self-destruct?”

I’d never seen a rabbit move like that before. Then again, I was in another world. There were plenty of animals back on Earth that could spontaneously kill themselves, so maybe a rabbit that did the same wasn’t too strange here.

“It looks like it fainted, so while it’s still unconscious, I’ll capture it and—”

The moment I moved toward the fallen rabbit, I sensed another presence nearby. I turned around and saw a drooling wolf looking my way, and it appeared to be absolutely starving. This creature, which had already gone extinct in Japan, glared at me menacingly while giving off an intense, murderous air. Its gray fur was faintly dirty, and its bared fangs looked sharp enough to bite a human arm clean off. Ho